Editorial Team

The management of our journal is a collaborative endeavor by the whole editorial team, featuring an active, widely respected, diverse, and representative Editorial Board. The editorial structure of the journal is listed as below and the roles and responsibilities of the editorial team are available at: https://www.amegroups.com/pages/journal-management#content-title.

Editors-in-Chief

Gening Jiang, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Douglas J. Mathisen, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Associate Editors-in-Chief

Chang Chen, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Hon Chi Suen, MBBS, FACS

Cardio-thoracic Surgery Centre, Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, Hong Kong, China

Associate Editor

Michael Lanuti, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Editorial Board

Ghulam Abbas, MD, MHCM, FACS

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA

Antonio Alvarez, MD, PhD

Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Unit, Hospital Reina Sofia, Cordoba, Spain

Rafael Andrade, MD, MHA

Division of Thoracic and Foregut Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Mara B. Antonoff, MD

Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Omar Awais, DO

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Charles T. Bakhos, MD, MS, FACS

Department of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Jean-Marc Baste, MD, PhD

Surgical Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France

Elizabeth Belcher, PhD, MRCP, FRCS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK

Faiz Bhora, MD

Health Quest Health System, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA

Angelo Carretta, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Ernest G. Chan, MD, MPH

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Subhasis Chatterjee, MD, FACS, FACC, FCCP

Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

Toyofumi Fengshi Chen-Yoshikawa, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Malcolm M. DeCamp, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Ill, USA

Lieven Depypere

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of chronic diseases, metabolism and ageing (CHROMETA), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Patrick Dorn, MD

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Takashi Eguchi, MD, Ph.D., FCCP, FACS

Senior Assistant Professor, Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan

Irmina A. Elliott, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

Florian J. Fintelmann

Department of Radiology, Division of Thoracic Imaging and Intervention, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Henning A. Gaissert

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Surgery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Maria Teresa Gomez Hernández, MD, PhD, FEBTS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Salamanca University Hospital, Salamanca, Spain

Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, MD, FECTS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain

Shawn S. Groth, MD, MS

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, The Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

Yin P. Hung, MD, PhD

Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Ian Hunt, MD, FRCS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. George’s Hospital, London, UK

Junji Ichinose, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgical Oncology, the Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation of Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan

Hitoshi Igai, MD, PhD

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Maebashi Red Cross Hospital, Gunma, Japan

Hyun Woo Jeon, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Bucheon St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon, Republic of Korea

Mohamed K. Kamel

Department of Surgery, Central Michigan University College of Medicine, Saginaw, Michigan, USA

Biniam Kidane, MD

Section of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada; Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada; Research Institute in Oncology and Hematology, CancerCare Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

Samuel S. Kim, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

Gregor J. Kocher, MD, PD, MBA (IHM), MEBTS

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Seth B. Krantz, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, NorthShore University Health System, Evanston, IL, USA

Richard Lazzaro, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY, USA

Hyun-Sung Lee, MD, PhD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

Moishe Liberman

CETOC-CHUM Endoscopic Tracheobronchial and Oesophageal Center; Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

Jules Lin, MD, FACS

Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Matthias Loebe, MD, PhD, FACC, FCCP

Division of Thoracic Transplant and Mechanical Support, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

Jay M. Lee, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

George Makdisi, MD, FACS, MS, MPH

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Transplantation, Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL, USA

Fabien Maldonado, MD, FCCP

Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA

Emmanuel Martinod, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Avicenne Hospital, SMBH Faculty of Medicine, Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Nord, Paris, France

Keitaro Matsumoto, MD, PhD

Department of Surgical Oncology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Donna E. Maziak, MDCM, MSc, FRCSC, FACS

Surgical Oncology, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Ottawa Hospital-General Division, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

John D. Mitchell, MD

Section of General Thoracic Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA

Laureano Molins, MD

Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Clínic University Hospital, Barcelona University, Barcelona, Spain

Youngkyu Moon, MD, PhD

Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, Eunpyeong St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Dimitrios Moris, MD, MSc, PhD, MACS

Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

Christopher R. Morse, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Tomohiro Murakawa, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan

Nagarajan Muthialu, MB, BS, MBBS, MS (Gen), DNB, MRCSEd, DN

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK

Meinoshin Okumura, MD, PhD

Toneyama National Hospital, Osaka, Japan

Nikhil Panda, MD

Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Mariano Provencio, MD, PhD

Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain

Francesco Puma, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Perugia School of Medicine, Perugia, Italy

Ravi Rajaram, MD, MSc, FACS

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. USA

George Rakovich, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, University of Montreal, Montréal, QC, Canada

Janani S. Reisenauer

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

Gary Schwartz

Department of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

Elliot L. Servais, MD, FACS

Section of Thoracic Surgery, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Beth Israel Lahey Health, Burlington, MA, USA

Yoshihisa Shimada, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Satoshi Shiono, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Yamagata Prefectural Central Hospital, Yamagata, Japan

Alan D. L. SIHOE, MBBChir, FRCSEd(CTh), FCSHK, FHKAM

Cardiothoracic Surgery, CUHK Medical Center, Hong Kong, China; Honorary Consultant in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital, Hong Kong, China.

Tutku Soyer, MD

Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Ankara, Turkey

Sandra Starnes, MD

Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Matthew A. Steliga, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA

Monisha Sudarshan, MD, MPH, FACS, FRCSC

Department of Thoracic and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Kei Suzuki, MD, FACS

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

Davide Tosi, MD

Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Unit, Fondazione I.R.C.C.S. Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

Diamantis I. Tsilimigras, MD

Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA

Akif Turna, MD, PhD, FETCS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, İstanbul University, Cerrahpaşa School of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey

Nirmal Veeramachaneni, MD

Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS, USA

Federico Venuta

Department of Surgery “Paride Stefanini” - Thoracic Surgery Unit, Policlinico Umberto I, University of Rome SAPIENZA, Rome, Italy

Wickii T. Vigneswaran, MD, MBA, FACS, FRCSC, FRCS

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, USA

Jon O. Wee

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Stefan Welter, MD

Department of Surgery, Lung Clinic Hemer, Hemer, Germany

Douglas E. Wood, MD, FACS, FRCSEd

Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Jane Yanagawa, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Managing Editors

Haifeng Wang, MD, PhD